赫尔曼·梅尔维尔：巴特比和贝尼托·塞雷诺 Dover Thrift Editions：Bartleby and Benito Cereno

基本信息

Series:Thrift Editions

Format:Paperback / softback 112 pages

Publisher:Dover Publications Inc.

Imprint:Dover Publications Inc.

ISBN:9780486264738

Published:1 Feb 2000

Weight:92g

Dimensions:203 x 181 x 8 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

赫尔曼·梅尔维尔不仅因其出色的小说而在美国作家中名列前茅，还因其笔下涌现出的激动人心的中篇小说和短篇小说而名列前茅。其中相当受推崇的两部作品——《巴特比》和《贝尼托·塞雷诺》——起初出现在杂志上，随后于 1856 年作为短篇小说集《广场故事集》的一部分出版。

《巴特比》（也称为《抄写员巴特比》）是一个有趣的道德寓言，故事背景设定在 19 世纪中叶的纽约商业世界。巴特比是一个奇怪而神秘的人，在一家法律办公室担任办事员，他迫使雇主正视人类责任的基本问题，并困扰着后者的良心，即使在巴特比被解雇后也是如此。

《贝尼托·塞雷诺》被认为是梅尔维尔相当好的短篇小说之一，讲述了西班牙船上的一场血腥奴隶起义。这是一部关于人类与邪恶势力斗争的精彩寓言，精心设计且神秘隐秘的情节在揭示人类所能达到的恐怖和堕落的同时，也发展到戏剧性的高潮。

这些故事从标准文本中重印而成，新版制作精良但价格低廉，为普通读者和梅尔维尔及美国文学的学生提供了一位文学巨匠在讲故事方面出色的典范。

Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these — "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno" — first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales.

"Bartleby" (also known as "Bartleby the Scrivener") is an intriguing moral allegory set in the business world of mid-19th-century New York. A strange, enigmatic man employed as a clerk in a legal office, Bartleby forces his employer to come to grips with the most basic questions of human responsibility, and haunts the latter's conscience, even after Bartleby's dismissal.

"Benito Cereno," considered one of Melville's best short stories, deals with a bloody slave revolution on a Spanish vessel. A splendid parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, the carefully developed and mysteriously guarded plot builds to a dramatic climax while revealing the horror and depravity of which man is capable.

Reprinted here from standard texts in a finely made, yet inexpensive new edition, these stories offer the general reader and students of Melville and American literature sterling examples of a literary giant at his story-telling best.

作者简介

赫尔曼·梅尔维尔 (1819-1891) 早期以创作南洋历险故事而获得成功。1851 年《白鲸记》出版后，他的命运开始衰落。《白鲸记》现已被公认为杰作，但被梅尔维尔的同时代人所鄙视。作者被迫在纽约市担任海关检查员，在默默无闻中去世，三十年后，他的作品才受到批评家的重新评价。

Herman Melville (1819–1891) found early success with stories inspired by his adventures in the South Seas. His fortunes declined with the 1851 publication, now recognized as a masterpiece but scorned by Melville’s contemporaries. The author was obliged to work as a New York City customs inspector and died in obscurity, three decades before the critical reassessment of his work.